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“But these people don’t get what I’m here for.” “Don’t blame the outside — you’ll be disrupted and thrown off course. Turn to your commitment — move your purpose ahead.”
“You must not blame him,” she insists. “Everyone is a part of your puzzle. Take time each day to breathe and see how the parts fit together.”
Take time each day to breathe and see how the pieces fit together
“Easy is for boring lives, and challenge is for destiny.”
“Follow the current of silence through the ocean of noise.”
this is your dream, and that scares people more than death,” the old man answers in my head. “This is not a test of your talent, it’s a test of your commitment . . . commitment to being you.”
“Do you think any of this is about you?” Again, it’s the old man’s voice. “This is not about you,” he explains, “it’s about inspiring these people. So get out of your way, release your heart and sing.”
“Laugh with your life’s joy when it arrives, for God’s sake. Laugh in the face of all the false power and you’ll weaken it.”
It’s not that I’ve done wrong,” I say. “The worst offense was not believing in myself. It was the things I didn’t do because I didn’t trust that I could. That’s what hell is.”
“Just as the prisoner is limited by the prison walls, each human is limited by the walls of their own doubts and fears.”
it means relating from the heart in every moment, even the ones that are very painful.” “How do you know you’re in your heart?” I ask, not expecting the question can be answered. Palqtlo takes up the challenge. “To live in the heart is to practice and fail and fail and practice and fail and fail and fail until you’re able to sit in a neutral state. You have to be beyond the fray, otherwise the mind will override the heart with its opinions and conclusions every time.
“The heart is in fact the most absolutely certain and the most organized organ in the entire human body. It can’t ever rest or take breaks and so it’s historically been connected to the idea of bravery and endurance.” Palqtlo adds, “The mind in its negative state is not aware of such wisdom. Only in the neutral state can the mind grasp the power of the heart.”
“Remember it’s you who feels your feelings — choose how you feel. Remember it’s you who views your vision — choose what you view.”
When you’re a slave to that fear, you grow old and your heart fills with sadness for a life you never lived.”
“Yes. Our elders know that as long as a child holds onto the familiar, they can’t grow into adulthood. Not the adulthood that your world recognizes, but a truly mature, highly aware and compassionate human being.”
“The absolute unknown is the most fertile land for real growth,” he says. “The only way to grow is to become the unknown — then the moment will have the freedom to mold you into a known. This process will be fun and then horrible and then fun and horrible again. Your culture calls this a rollercoaster.”
“In the Wirikuta,” Palqtlo explains, “children go through rites of passage in order to form a formless identity that is able to completely adapt to any unknown situation they face.
“Allowing a person to grow up without knowing who they are is condemning that person to slavery. That is crazy! Allowing your children to be sent into war. That is crazy! Crazy is not being able to find that sacred space inside of you where you can experience security no matter what’s going on around you.”
“Our ways give you the opportunity to see you and be you,” he says. “And when you can see yourself, you realize that everything is a part of you . . . that’s it.”
“Endless questions will arise in a frantic mind,” he answers. “But silence is the only way to penetrate the blindness of the caverns.
“The elders come to these hills to heal them,” Palqtlo says. “To heal?” I ask. “No, to heal the springs, the rivers, the mountains and forests. They all need our attention from time to time.” “How can you heal a mountain?” “By seeing it without mistakes,” he answers calmly. “And by forgiving your mistakes without conditions in the process.”
“First of all, my ancestors figured out that if we slow down the emotions and quiet the mind, then the information that we need comes through. It comes through our thoughts, our dreams, our visions and our will, but mainly it comes through our dreams.
“You’re about to undo one of the greatest mysteries of your society.” “What’s that?” “The mystery of whether or not there’s a vast power right inside you.” He stops for a moment and takes a long drink of water. “You set up your lives to be so entertained that you are never below the surface. You’re completely oblivious to your real power.”
the total absence of light. After you’ve been in it for a while it reveals the illusion of fear and the illusion of doubt and all the other illusions that keeps a person from delivering on their biggest dreams.”
“With our experiences in the passages, emotions like fear become our friends; the kind of friends that give us the confidence and strength to face life’s difficulties. We rely on them in a way that’s tangible; they’re a tool.”
Fearrrr rely on like a friend
This journey that I’m on is absolutely insane, but I chose it and I am becoming accustomed to the insanity.
“I don’t know why I’m laughing, but it sure feels great.” “You’re laughing because you survived a moment that was ruled by fear, the fear that you wouldn’t survive,” he tells me. “You’re laughing because you now see that your fear was bullshit . . . important to keep you alert, but bullshit nonetheless. This is how the body and mind react. It’s what we all go through in our passages. It teaches us to fear less, to fear with accuracy and enjoy more of the moments as we live.” I’ve heard words like these before, but now they’re making more sense. A real experience gives them life. I want to live
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“The time you spend doing nothing but observing and absorbing.”
Vacation gols? Yeah actually
“Great intentions always encounter great reactions — it’s the law of nature.”
Newtons third law
When we’ve learned to acknowledge the power within us we’re able to use it. These powers become our friends after we’ve faced the full force of our emotions.”
Rite of passagve speech
Remember your first obligation in life is to break the chains of your emotional prison. Use them for their power and you will pass through the mystery of this world on your path to freedom.”
Need
“When you feel lost down in the Taquatsi, you’re believing the limits. You learn over the time that you practice that this is an illusion that the emotions create . . . you learn to be their master not their slave.”
Leaders had always been obvious by their wisdom, not their ability to compete. Now leaders were chosen by their power to kill and they killed the sacred nature of the people.
“The Great Reflection is the name we have for all creation,” he says. “We know that everything we perceive is just a reflection of what we are.”
“Your connection with the spirit is not fully awake. You’re very much awake to the needs of your body, thoughts and emotions and this is a good start.”
“When you blame, you dissolve your strength. Your connection to life is lost.”
“When you stop laughing, God finds someone else to have fun with.”
On being you. Authentic
“Remember, there’s no decision that is of itself, right or wrong,” he tells me. “You make a decision and then you either cause it to become right, or you let it go wrong.”
“We face the dangers on the outside to take excess fear out of our inside,” she says frankly. “Palqtlo tells me that in your villages, everyone hides the fact that they are filled with fears inside. This makes everything on the outside false.”
Living with fear controlling
“The present moment is the only living moment. Remaining conscious of this present presence is extremely important for life to exist. Don’t become lost in the memory of the past, but use this past as a tool to build the present. Don’t be fearful of the future, but use your present presence to build your future. This will keep you growing powerfully.”
“We’re on Earth to learn how to fully engage each moment. We’re here to then fully release that same moment to make room for the next. This is called momentum and it’s a very powerful tool that saves effort and energy. We live life fully through momentum.”
“The opposite of this momentum is stagnation,” they continue. “And stagnation produces all of the negating emotions as a warning that stagnation is present instead of presence. Among these are fear, guilt, and other emotions that warn us that we are out of our power.”
Love this. Negating emotion as messengers. Thag we are living without our power. Not embracing life here in presesnt
“Guilt is the emotion that forces us into the past where life does not exist. The past is dead and therefore you’re not alive in this emotion. Guilt will make you ineffective in your efforts. You’re unable to give yourself forward to this moment.” “What does it mean, giving yourself forward?” I continue to question. “It means to forgive,” Palqtlo explains. “Forgiving what?” “Yourself.” “For what?” I ask. “For any moment in the past . . . it’s the ability to give yourself forward to the present moment from a past moment so that you can fully live in time . . . to be present in your presence.”
Forgive. Give yourself forward to this moment
“Why is guilt so strong?” I ask again, wanting to completely understand. “Because we think it’s an answer. Because we think feeling bad will lead to feeling good, but it never can. You must give up your guilt and forgive yourself.”
We think its an answer. Guilt and shame. That feelijng bad will lead to feelijng good.
“The path of your demons is always as strong as the path of your light,” she explains to me. “The passages prove to you that there is a choice at all times of which way you go and you end up with commitment.”
(Intention x Focus) x (Time) - (Habit of Fear + Doubt) = OUTCOME “This is the equation of life and the sum of all attitudes,” he tells me. “If the focus of your intention is held over a period of time and this is longer than the time that you give to your fear, then you accomplish your desire.”
A person of any age can accomplish almost anything with a simple focus, an attitude of silence and consistent discipline of the body, mind and emotions.
no one knows how to do anything until they have to.
will share healing and love through music, words and consciousness. I will bring a peace and calm — prosperity and joy, to the life of this planet.
As the days go by I learn how to communicate without words. I have a mutual respect for the mountain lions, wolves and coyotes, all the creatures of the Wirikuta.
Goals
